Staples Must Pay $26 million for Age Discrimination
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury hit the “Easy” button and ordered Staples, Inc., the office supply chain, to pay $26 million in damages in an age discrimination case. Bobby Nickel., 66, was hired...
View ArticleGoogle Omits Age from Diversity Goals
Something is missing from diversity statistics posted online this week by Google – information about the age of its workforce. Google posted statistics showing a workforce that is (surprise!)...
View ArticleThe EEOC, Age & the Great Recession
The Great Recession hit older workers like a baseball bat. Older workers were fired and laid off, dumped nto a sea of long-term unemployment, poorly-paid temp or part-time work and into an ill-advised...
View ArticleWANTED: Advocacy Group to Help Older Workers
The Time For Action is Long Overdue What advocacy group exists today to fight age discrimination in the workplace? My first thought was the AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons,...
View ArticleThe Lack of Equal Justice for All
There was an article in the New York Times recently about the elusiveness of justice for African-Americans in the criminal justice system. This obviously reflects ingrained racism but it is also a...
View ArticleEEOC Snubs Age Discrimination – Again
Yet again, the EEOC in 2014 devoted a disproportionately small percentage of its resources toward litigating age discrimination complaints. The EEOC filed 133 merits lawsuits during FY 2014, compared...
View Article“Substantial” Evidence in Age Discrimination Cases
Those few age discrimination victims who manage to prevail in lawsuits against their employers may find their victory is elusive. Such was the case in California recently when a Superior Court judge...
View ArticleObama Forgot to Fight Age Discrimination
“Obama will fight job discrimination for aging employees by strengthening the Age Discrimination in Employment Act … .” Source: Blueprint for Change (2008) I was surprised when I recently read that...
View ArticleImportant Ruling on Motive & Age Discrimination
Here’s a rare and important victory in a federal age discrimination case involving a Minnesota city’s failure to promote a 51-year-old police lieutenant to the position of chief of police because he...
View ArticleEvidence Lacking for AMA Prescription for ‘Senior’ Doctors
Fifty years ago, the American Medical Association decried mandatory retirement as the “arbitrary segregation of individuals because of arbitrarily determined chronological age.” Now the AMA is working...
View ArticleBloomberg Articles on Age Discrimination in Employment
I am excited to be quoted in a series of excellent articles addressing the problem of age discrimination in employment published today by Bloomberg’s Daily Labor Report. The main article, by Patrick...
View ArticleOutrage About China’s Treatment of Peng Shuai
There is more than a little bit of hypocrisy with respect to the outrage in the U.S. about China’s treatment of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s following her sexual assault complaint against Chinese...
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